Chapter 170: Make a Move — Chaotic Konoha

After Yuto made his move, Madara naturally refused to fall behind. A glint flashed in his Rinnegan.

“Tengai Shinsei (Heaven Concealed)!”

Madara brought his hands together, formed seals, and spoke in a slightly low voice.

Hearing the name of that technique, Yuto’s eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help glancing at Madara.

Opening with a map-wipe… yeah, this guy really was ruthless.

And this jutsu just happened to pair perfectly with the one Yuto had just used!

Of course, with Madara using it in his current state, the power of Tengai Shinsei (Heaven Concealed) would probably be weakened somewhat.

But Tengai Shinsei was still Tengai Shinsei—no matter how “weakened,” it wouldn’t be weak.

Konoha.

Facing the sudden downpour, everyone froze for a moment.

“It was sunny just now… why did it suddenly start raining?”

Hinata lifted her head, puzzled, staring at the sky that had abruptly turned gloomy.

And then, Hinata suddenly felt a wave of weakness spread through her body.

Were the injuries from earlier still not fully healed?

No… this feeling—

“Byakugan (White Eye)!”

Hinata’s heart jolted. She immediately activated her Byakugan (White Eye), veins bulging at the corners of her eyes as her vision snapped onto the dense rain falling from the sky.

In the next instant, Hinata collapsed onto the ground, her face filled with horror.

Kiba, who was standing not far from Hinata, noticed something was wrong first and hurried over.

“Hinata, what’s wrong?!”

Kiba looked at Hinata sitting on the ground, confusion on his face.

“This… this rain!”

Hinata raised a trembling finger toward the falling droplets, her face pale, her voice shaking.

In Hinata’s Byakugan (White Eye), every single raindrop contained a strange chakra.

The amount of chakra in each droplet wasn’t much—but this was a downpour covering all of Konoha.

It was chakra on a scale that completely surpassed anything Hinata could understand, something beyond imagination.

Right now, all of Konoha was enveloped in that vast, terrifying chakra.

Powerless.

A deep, suffocating sense of powerlessness.

That was the very first feeling that slammed into Hinata after seeing it with her Byakugan (White Eye).

Nowhere to run. Nowhere to retreat.

Thud.

With a soft sound, Shino suddenly toppled to the ground.

Kurenai reacted first, flashing to Shino’s side.

She was just about to speak when she saw it—

Masses of black insects seeped out from beneath Shino’s skin, scrambling frantically to crawl out of his body.

But the moment they emerged, they all dropped—dead.

In barely an instant, a pile of insect corpses had formed beside Shino.

Kurenai’s hand, which had been reaching out to support Shino, froze in midair.

And Shino had already passed out.

Meanwhile, Akamaru—perched atop Kiba’s head—let out a weak, pitiful whine.

Enemy attack!

At this point, even the slowest person understood—Konoha was under attack.

As the rain drenched her, even Kurenai could clearly feel the chakra inside her being weakened, little by little.

She looked at her three students, a grim heaviness settling over her face.

This rain had only lasted a short while, and it was already having such obvious effects. If it kept falling—

The enemy wouldn’t even need to appear. Konoha would lose more than half its fighting strength on its own.

Especially after seeing Shino and Kiba’s condition, a chill ran through Kurenai’s heart.

The entire Aburame… no—

Just as Kurenai feared, Konoha had already fallen into chaos.

Especially clans like the Aburame and the Inuzuka, shinobi who relied on special methods were hit brutally—some even wiped out completely.

“Quick! Find somewhere to get out of this rain first! Kiba—carry Shino!”

Kurenai flashed to Hinata’s side and immediately leapt toward the nearby residential area.

Kiba stared blankly at Shino lying among the insect corpses, a wave of disgust crawling up his spine.

But he knew this was an emergency. He grit his teeth, reached into the pile, grabbed Shino, and dragged him toward the nearest house.

Elsewhere, under the eaves of a building, Neji stared in shock at the terrifying chakra blanketing all of Konoha.

For some reason, seeing this scene made a figure surface in Neji’s mind.

“Do you want to defy fate?”

A faint, almost illusory voice seemed to whisper in Neji’s ear.

Hokage Office!

Bang!

A cane slammed hard into the floor.

Danzo, face twisted with fury, roared:

“Useless! You still haven’t found where the enemy is?!!”

A member of the Hyuga Clan standing not far from Danzo flashed a look of displeasure.

But he still spoke without servility or arrogance:

“I apologize, Danzo-sama. The chakra behind this technique is far too vast, and that chakra also creates severe interference for the Byakugan (White Eye).”

Hearing that, Danzo was about to bark again—

But Tsunade’s voice came from the side.

“Thank you for your efforts. You may go.”

The Hyuga member gave Tsunade a small bow and left the Hokage Office.

Once he was gone, Danzo fell silent.

If it were before, Danzo could ignore Tsunade’s face—but now, standing behind her was Hashirama.

“We have to find the enemy quickly and force them to cancel this technique, or else…”

Danzo’s eyes shifted to the window, staring at the dense rain swallowing Konoha, fear and wariness deep in his gaze.

“Looks like they’re already here.”

Jiraiya spoke from the side, his face showing a rare tension.

“A technique that can cover all of Konoha instantly… there’s probably only one person.”

Tsunade’s expression didn’t change, but there was a faint tremor in her voice.

Clearly, she wasn’t nearly as calm as she looked.

Hearing Jiraiya and Tsunade, Danzo immediately understood.

It wasn’t that Danzo was slow—by his common sense, Yuto wouldn’t attack Konoha again so soon after launching a war.

It was simply irrational.

“Right now, all we can do… is rely on Grandpa—”

Tsunade spoke with worry, but before she could finish, an extremely faint sound echoed inside the Hokage Office.

It was soft—but with the strength of the people present, it was impossible not to hear.

Tsunade and the others looked toward the source.

In the air—where there had been nothing—

A small black dot appeared.

Then the black dot rapidly expanded, blinking into a full spatial gateway.

“So you’ve come.”

Hashirama stepped out from the other-dimensional space, a large scroll strapped across his back!